C P Pow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C P Pow |
| GIVEN NAMES | C P |
| FAMILY NAME | Pow |
| SIGNATURE | POW C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography National University of Singapore Singapore 117570 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gated Urbanism
Gated urbanism is often traced to the spread of enclosed urban developments, the most vilified being gated communities. In much of the critical urban studies literature, such gated forms of development are often treated as the products of neoliberalism that allegedly transform cities everywhere into urban fortresses. To the extent that these critiques have become the dominant narratives, they also risk foreclosing critical debates on gated urbani…
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
B erkeley S chool
The Berkeley School of Cultural Geography emerged in the 1920s and is closely associated with the works of Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975) and his students. While an intellectual development can rarely be attributed to a single individual scholar, Sauer's pivotal role is so significant that his name has become largely synonymous with the Berkeley School. Through Sauer, cultural geography became redefined as an interdisciplinary project focusing on …
Cultural Geography
As a subdiscipline that has evolved from a number of inherited intellectual traditions, cultural geography is often seen to have experienced several paradigmatic shifts and turns over the past decades. Yet to speak of turns and shifts seems to imply that the trajectory of geographical scholarship always necessarily travels in a unilinear pathway even if the intellectual terrain is often circuitous. To the extent that the term “old” and “new” are …
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
“Sense and Sensibility”: Social‐spatial Experiences of the Visually‐impaired in Singapore
Vision plays an important role in our daily life, and geography is to a large extent, a visual discipline. The persistence of the visual ideology is problematic as it encourages geographical scholarship to neglect the role of non‐visual senses while at the same time, marginalises the experiences of non‐sighted people. By adopting an interpretative approach and drawing concepts from “sensuous geographies”, this paper explores the role of non‐visua…
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
“Sense and Sensibility”: Social‐spatial Experiences of the Visually‐impaired in Singapore
Vision plays an important role in our daily life, and geography is to a large extent, a visual discipline. The persistence of the visual ideology is problematic as it encourages geographical scholarship to neglect the role of non‐visual senses while at the same time, marginalises the experiences of non‐sighted people. By adopting an interpretative approach and drawing concepts from “sensuous geographies”, this paper explores the role of non‐visua…
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
B erkeley S chool
The Berkeley School of Cultural Geography emerged in the 1920s and is closely associated with the works of Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975) and his students. While an intellectual development can rarely be attributed to a single individual scholar, Sauer's pivotal role is so significant that his name has become largely synonymous with the Berkeley School. Through Sauer, cultural geography became redefined as an interdisciplinary project focusing on …
Cultural Geography
As a subdiscipline that has evolved from a number of inherited intellectual traditions, cultural geography is often seen to have experienced several paradigmatic shifts and turns over the past decades. Yet to speak of turns and shifts seems to imply that the trajectory of geographical scholarship always necessarily travels in a unilinear pathway even if the intellectual terrain is often circuitous. To the extent that the term “old” and “new” are …
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
Gated Urbanism
Gated urbanism is often traced to the spread of enclosed urban developments, the most vilified being gated communities. In much of the critical urban studies literature, such gated forms of development are often treated as the products of neoliberalism that allegedly transform cities everywhere into urban fortresses. To the extent that these critiques have become the dominant narratives, they also risk foreclosing critical debates on gated urbani…
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works)